How do I highlight text with color in confluence?

[Cobin Bluth]

I have some documents in my Google Docs that I would like to transfer to Confluence.
My document makes heavy use of highlighting text in color to differentiate certain contextual elements in the document.

How do I highlight text with color in confluence?

[Nidhi Raj · Accepted solution]

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/New-feature-Text-highlighting-in-Confluence/ba-p/2728045

The above article has the how-to on text highlighting in Confluence

[David Oekroes]

I still don't see any options for highlighting text easily. What are your plans in this regard?

[Manon Soubies-Camy]

Hello Cobin and welcome to Community!

There is an open feature request: Provide ability to easily highlight text with color in WYSIWYG editor, you can vote for it to show interest and watch it to be updated.

You can use macros as a workaround:

• Info (blue)
• Tip (green)
• Warning (red)
• Note (yellow)
• Background Color (custom)
• Panel (custom)
• Status (single words)

You'll get this as a result:

Hope this helps,

- Manon

[Laura Servidei]

how do you make the status box that big? Mine is only a few character wide, and after that it shows "..."

[Manon Soubies-Camy]

Hello @Laura Servidei,

The status box is small and ends with "..." while in Edit mode, publish the page and it should be bigger :)

[Laura Servidei]

DOH!

Thanks.

[Vishal S]

but still when i wanted to make my header in red color background i am not able to see red color in the background color list can someone help me on this,

[Karan Shah]

There is no background colour option available. However, work around is use macro - status i.e., custom label.

[Bilal]

It's remarkable that there's no text highlight for an enterprise-grade software. Why are you charging customers when customer still has to "vote" for a very basic feature?

[Johannes Gubo]

@Bilal agree, it's completely stupid and counter productive. Atlassian keeps failing for over a decade to delivery some of the most basic features across their entire product lineup.

[Zoriana Bogutska_Kolekti-Adaptavist_]

Hi there, 

Using Mosaic for Confluence it is easy to highlight text using a background macro. 

Also, for background, add-on users can upload pictures to improve the Confluence page design.

This app is developed by my Adaptavist team, so if someone has any questions - I'm happy to help.

[Stephen George]

One workaround available is to insert a simple, 1-cell table (by typing /table) and choosing from one of the available palette colors for the background of the cell:

Result

[Scott Morris]

not really an answer. more of an add-on. i really want to highlight text inline from my page, not put it in its own box. i need to identify code to be changed vs. code that is good. maybe i'm just stuck in an old version of confluence?

[Hitesh Jain]

If you figure this out please share it.

[Dean Ramdhayan]

This is the most basic function for documentation, how are you worth billions of dollars and not able to implement this

[John Bartlett]

Yellow highlighting is typically used to indicate 'work to do' in a document. I achieve this by commenting on the text, which highlights it in yellow and add a comment in 'to do'. Using comments for highlights in this way has the added benefit of providing you with a list of you highlighted test on a page. Here's an example:

[kris.van.de.vijver]

That's a perfect solution for me, thanks for this tip/workaround.

[Alan Pham]

Brilliant!

[lorant_z]

2024 and confluence still cannot highlight text background.... unbelievable....

[Dave Hildebrandt]

Use the span macro to set the style.

[Andrew Rothman]

Where do we get that?

[Morgan Day]

I can't find it either...

[Adam Hechler]

I don't see a "span" macro

[Alex R_]

I have no idea what macro @Dave Hildebrandt was using, but I created my own:

## Macro title: Span
## Macro has a body: Y
## Body processing: Rendered
##
## Wraps content in a span tag with optional class name and styles for the tag. Do not include quotes in the class name or styles.
##
## @param Id:title=ID|type=string|option-showValueInPlaceholder=true
## @param Class:title=Class|type=string|desc=The class of the element
## @param Style:title=Style|type=string|desc=An inline ctyle definition
## @param Title:title=Title|type=string|desc=Text to display in a tool tip

<span
  #if ($paramId)
    id="$paramId"
  #end
  #if ($paramClass)
    class="$paramClass"
  #end
  #if ($paramStyle)
    style="$paramStyle"
  #end
  #if ($paramTitle)
    title="$paramTitle"
  #end
>$body</span>

[jhonwills72]

To highlight text with color in Confluence, you can use the Text Color plugin. It allows you to select and apply various colors to your text, enhancing readability and Gta 4 visual appeal. Simply install the plugin from the Confluence Marketplace and follow the instructions for highlighting text.

[Achim Haag]

"Gta 4" -> h....://cracksofshah.com/ obviously no serious content...

[nicooletahehe]

Hello,

I used the 'Highlight' Macro:

or the 'Background color' Macro. This one highlights the whole row, though ^^'.

[Adam Hechler]

Where did you find a "highlight" macro? Did you purchase an add-on macro? Are you using Confluence Cloud? 

[Hitesh Jain]

Text Highlighter for Confluence | Atlassian Marketplace

Try this plugin

[Achim Haag]

As always: what I expect as a Wiki default must be bought

[Ollie Guan]

Hi @Cobin Bluth,

Try this plug-in:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211012/webfonts-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview

[SG]

Looked promising, but is only available for server, which is no longer sold.

It's disappointing that text formatting options are so limited on Confluence.

[Morgan Day]

Ridiculously limited